what reason would anyone have
That’s none of your business. You don’t need to know why anyone wants to do a thing to advocate for their freedom to do it.
Just because you lack the imagination to think of reasons someone might have, doesn’t mean that they don’t have a perfectly good reason. But, they shouldn’t need to justify themselves to you.
Why do you need to know how other people use software to understand why arbitrary limits are arbitrary?
Why would anyone need to turn it on or off 3 times in a year?
Why would they need to limit you?
Anyone else reminded of Victor Borge?
Some of these devices have even been known to look for other similar devices within WiFi range, and phone home that way (i.e., send analytics data via a neighbor’s connected TV as a proxy).
Ummm, wut? I’m going to need some quality sources to back this claim up.
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That makes a lot more sense than sea water and fresh water.
Friggin hell. Thanks.
I think the article author is completely confused and doesn’t understand what’s happening. There are hints of what’s happening in this paragraph.
Fresh water—or treated wastewater—is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater, made even saltier by concentrating leftover brine from a desalination process. The difference in saltiness pulls the fresh water across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side. That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity.
I don’t think any fresh water is being used. I think what’s actually happening is…
Very salty wastewater (from the desalinization plant) is placed on one side of a membrane. On the other side is seawater. The difference in saltiness pulls the wastewater across the membrane, increasing the pressure on the saltwater side (or maybe the other way around). That pressure is then used to drive a turbine, generating electricity. The waste then is just water that’s saltier than sea water, but less salty than what came from the desalinization plant.
So, then why are you confused about what’s using power at night?
Do you go to bed at sunset?
Do you turn off your heat at sunset in the winter?
Maybe you do, but most people don’t.
Also, most people with an electric car and a garage to park it can just use a cheap Level 1 charger to trickle charge it whenever it’s in the garage and always have plenty of range for their commute and errands. This means all of those cars are charging. … at night while the owner sleeps.
I can hear your Mom all the way from here telling you to clean your room.
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve walked away from some online product or service that I was interested in but refused to publicly disclose prices beyond, “FrEe TrIaL!”
Nah thanks. If you’re playing mind games like that right off the bat, that tells me everything I need to know about the experience of using the product.
69% rate the ethics of top Trump administration officials as excellent or good.
This tells you all you need to know about the ethics and moral compass of evangelicals.
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threatens to “financially ruin” the entire AI industry
No. Just the LLM industry and AI slop image and video generation industries. All of the legitimate uses of AI (drug discovery, finding solar panel improvements, self driving vehicles, etc) are all completely immune from this lawsuit, because they’re not dependent on stealing other people’s work.
Thanks for the excellent and thorough explanation!
JFC, as if this guy wasn’t already the poster child for cringe.
You don’t know why they might want to do this thing. I also don’t know why they would want to do this thing. The difference is, I 👏 Don’t 👏 Care 👏. My opinion of their reason to want to do it is irrelevant to my advocating their freedom to do it.
And that’s all I’m going to say on the subject. If you can’t understand that basic fact, then I don’t know what else I can say.